Originally Posted by
N830MH
What happened? Wasn't the rocket explosion?? It is very bad damage and I don't think WiFi works during on Pacific flights. Perhaps not. Hopefully they will deployed another rocket launch in the future.
3-fold problem
- Viasat won't launch anything else for a decade at this point. F1 will never be fixed or replaced. The company is hoping their LEO and GEO partners will bail them out for any coverage gaps or speed/capacity gaps. Such gaps will be extensive for Arctic routes and trans-European overflight.
- No polar Amazon Leo for at least a decade which will compound the Arctic issue.
- Delta is committed to the sunk cost for both. Planes might require multiple antennas instead of just a single one for fast, global Starlink coverage that they could have today.
Last edited by LLStarks; Jun 1, 2026 at 9:51 am